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As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year. 

EMSL projects displayed on the EMSL web site project page reflect project abstracts and information migrated to this page before April 30, 2024. To review current and past EMSL user projects, visit EMSL Science Central.™ 

 

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Materials and Methods for Multivariate Chemical Sensing

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jay Grate
Project type
Exploratory Research
This research entails an interdisciplinary effort in the development of multivariate trace detection methods suitable for or with the potential to be suitable for field analysis. Specifically, it…

Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoparticle Investigation and Characterization

Lead Institution
Southern Oregon University
Principal Investigator
Laura Hughes
Project type
Exploratory Research
Monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles will be synthesized and characterized at Southern Oregon University and PNNL. The electron microscopy facilities at PNNL will be used to characterize…

Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoparticle Investigation and Characterization

Lead Institution
Southern Oregon University
Principal Investigator
Laura Hughes
Project type
Exploratory Research
Monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles will be synthesized and characterized at Southern Oregon University and PNNL. The electron microscopy facilities at PNNL will be used to characterize…

Image for March 2003 issue of Resource Magazine

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
Need to create an interesting image for the cover art to go with the feature article on bioproducts in the corn industry.

Measure the anisotropy of a membrane protein at a cell membrane.

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Jie Zheng
Project type
Exploratory Research
Cyclic nucleotide-gated channels play a key role in sensory transduction of both visual and olfactory systems. CNG channels have been labeled with dye molecules, and a control experiment is needed…

Ultrasonic Catalysis of Chemical Reactions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kayte Denslow
Project type
Exploratory Research
Using ultrasound, chemical reactions can be enhanced by decreasing activation energy and shifting chemical equilibrium. One specific area that will be focused on is the heterogeneous catalysis of…

TEM Study of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymer-Derived Ceramic Composites

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Linan An
Project type
Exploratory Research
Carbon nanotube (CNT), the strongest material has ever been discovered, is very promising as reinforcement for composites applications. However, processing control to achieve uniform nano-scale…

Growth mechanisms of graphene on thin Ni films

Lead Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Jing Kong
Project type
Exploratory Research
The growth of single- to few- layer graphene is implemented by ambient pressure CVD on thin Ni films (~500 nm). ToF-SIMS will be used to investigate the growth mechanisms of graphene over the Ni…

Exploring the processes that control uranyl reduction by magnetite and the growth of nanoparticulate surface precipitates by X-ray scattering and X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glenn Waychunas
Project type
Exploratory Research
Uranium (U) has been released into the environment through mining operations, nuclear testing, and accidental spills, and is a contaminant in soils, sediments and groundwater at 70% of the Department…

Rhodobacter sphaerodies

Lead Institution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Principal Investigator
Timothy Donohue
Project type
Exploratory Research
Rhodobacter sphaerodies 2.4.1. is a-3 purple nonsulfur eubacterium with an extensive metabolic repertoire. Under anaerobic conditions, it is able to grow by photosynthesis, respiration and…

electron induced low-dose hypersensetivity

Lead Institution
Wayne State University
Principal Investigator
Michael Joiner
Project type
Exploratory Research
Following very low acute radiation exposures, an increase in radiosensitivity has been detected at doses below 1 Gy in a number of cell lines in vitro. This phenomenon is termed ?low-dose hyper…

Developing high-performance parallel languages on the SGI Altix

Lead Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator
Dan Bonachea
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our group is working on developing high-performance parallel languages (specifically UPC and Titanium) for modern supercomputers. We'd like to port our implementation of GASNet (a unified, high…

1H AND 13C NMR STUDY OF BRODIFACOUM STEREOCHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURE

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Cort
Project type
Exploratory Research
Brodifacoum is a lipid-soluble warfarin derivative that inhibits vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKOR) and exhibits potent anticoagulant activity. Because of its chemical stability and use in numerous…

Solid State NMR Characterization of Hydrogenase

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wendy Shaw
Project type
Exploratory Research
Hydrogenase is a naturally occurring enzyme that efficiently converts H2->2H+ + 2e- and is reversible. Producing synthetic catalysts with these properties is highly desirable, but current analogs…

Isolation of Isotopically-Labeled Nucleic Acids

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Kathleen McAteer
Project type
Exploratory Research
The primary goal of this project is to develop and implement new approaches for using isotopic labels in NMR-based DNA structure determination. 13C and 15N-labeled RNA and DNA will be isolated from…